{"id":122858,"date":"2026-02-04T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:04:11","slug":"council-set-to-probe-freeze-response-as-17th-person-reported-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122858\/","title":{"rendered":"Council set to probe freeze response as 17th person reported dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police direct traffic past a car stuck going across the Brooklyn Bridge as it snows on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in New York. Photo: Alyssa Goodman\/AP<\/p>\n

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CITYWIDE \u2013 THE CITY COUNCIL is set to hold hearings next week into the wave of exposure deaths during the ongoing deep freeze, reports NBC 4 News<\/a>, following an announcement by Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday that another person was found deceased, the 17th since the beginning of the cold weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Council\u2019s committees on Public Safety and General Welfare will hold a joint hearing on Feb. 10 examining the deaths, 13 of which have so far been attributed to hypothermia. The Sanitation Committee also plans a separate hearing next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city remains under a Code Blue alert, ahead of a weekend forecast to bring single-digit lows. Anyone who sees a person sleeping outside or appearing to be in distress from the cold is asked to call 311 or 911 to help dispatch outreach teams to their location.<\/p>\n

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